Thursday, August 10, 2017

Neo-conservatives can’t seem to make up their mind about the
Confederacy. They all agree that the Confederacy represented everything
evil about early America (which places them squarely in league with
their intellectual brothers on the Left) but why they hate it presents
the real conundrum.

If, by some miracle I got off the bus for SEAL training, my immediate question would be, where is the bell? ! :)

A women aiming to become the first female Navy SEAL officer quit
about a week into the initial training, Task and Purpose reported
Thursday.

The unidentified female candidate dropped out in early August during a
three-week course in San Diego that began July 24. It was the first
assessment of potential SEAL officers before they can be sent on to more
grueling courses, according to the website, which cited "multiple Naval
Special Warfare Command sources.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) has historically been very popular in
Maine. She was reelected to the Senate in 2014 by the eye-popping margin
of 37 points--the same election which saw conservative Republican Gov.
Paul LePage only garner 48 percent of the same electorate. While she's
not exactly popular on a national scale due to her centrist tendencies, Mainers seem to like her just fine--until now, maybe.

Although
Collins isn't up for reelection to the Senate until 2020, there's been
quite a bit of chatter that she may make a run for the Blaine House
after Gov. Paul LePage is term-limited in 2018 and cannot run again.
Collins previously ran for governor in 1994, losing to the now-Sen.
Angus King (I-ME).

Given her relative popularity in Maine, one would
think that she’d be a relative shoo-in for the position, but an
interesting new poll is casting doubt on if she’d even make it past the
primary.

These days, public displays of Christian faith are
frowned upon. Heck, any Christian who makes a big deal about using
“Merry Christmas” as opposed to “Happy Holidays” is subject to
tut-tutting by the media.

It wasn’t always this way, though — and a photo from New York City in Easter of 1956 proves it.

A group of construction workers took matters into their own hands
when dealing with an alleged thief Wednesday afternoon in uptown
Charlotte.

The incident happened about 3:40 p.m. at 229 N. Church
Street, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. A FOX 46 Charlotte
viewer stumbled upon the scene and says the crew was working on the
corner of Church Street and W. 6th Street when the man tried to break
into one of their construction vehicles.

There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee’s system on July 5 last year—not by the Russians, not by anyone else. Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak—a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC’s system. This casts serious doubt on the initial “hack,” as alleged, that led to the very consequential publication of a large store of documents on WikiLeaks last summer.

Forensic investigations of documents made public two weeks prior to the July 5 leak by the person or entity known as Guccifer 2.0 show that they were fraudulent: Before Guccifer posted them they were adulterated by cutting and pasting them into a blank template that had Russian as its default language. Guccifer took responsibility on June 15 for an intrusion the DNC reported on June 14 and professed to be a WikiLeaks source—claims essential to the official narrative implicating Russia in what was soon cast as an extensive hacking operation. To put the point simply, forensic science now devastates this narrative.

Clarence Thomas, one of nine members of the Supreme Court and the
second black to ever join the Court, is not in the National Museum of
African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Asked to
explain Thomas' absence, the chief spokeswoman for the Smithsonian said,
"The museum's exhibitions are based on themes, not individuals."

Yet
the museum plans to add a popular local D.C. television news
broadcaster. The museum's founding director, Lonnie Bunch, said the
broadcaster "symbolized that it was really important that America was
changing and his presence was a symbol of that change." And Thomas,
raised in poverty to become only the second black to sit on the Supreme
Court, is not "a symbol of that change"?

Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story
that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea
is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be
used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial
fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013. The Post also failed to
mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit
this report at the time.

A September 2016 study by the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS) opens with a statement that the U.S. economy profits
$54.2 Billion annually from immigration. This is actually less than 0.3
percent of the $18.8 Trillion annual GDP. This top-line figure is
enthusiastically reported by a national media that is largely ignorant
of the economics and fiscal costs of immigration. The cheap-labor
cartels that receive all the benefit are grateful for such enthusiastic
reports as are the politicians who are funded by the cheap-labor
cartels. Considering the vast importance of immigration issues to the
country, far too few members of the U.S. Congress and state legislators
have a good economic and fiscal understanding of immigration policy.

But celebrating only the top-line economic benefit
to immigration is much like celebrating a $1.0 million widget sale, when
the cost of acquiring or manufacturing those widgets was $1.5 million.
It is also like falling for the fast-talking carnival pitch that buying
three for the price of four is a great deal.

Judicial Watch announced that on August 8, 2017, D.C. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta ordered
the State Department “to search the state.gov e-mail accounts of Huma
Abedin, Cheryl Mills, and Jacob Sullivan,” former aides of Hillary
Clinton during her tenure as Secretary of State. The State Department is
ordered to search in those accounts “for records responsive to
[Judicial Watch’s] March 4, 2015, FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]
request.” (A separate Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit first broke open the
Clinton email scandal.)

Judge Mehta described Judicial Watch’s Clinton Benghazi FOIA lawsuit
as “a far cry from a typical FOIA case. Secretary Clinton used a private
e-mail server, located in her home, to transmit and receive
work-related communications during her tenure as Secretary of State.”
Further:

[I]f an e-mail did not involve any state.gov user, the
message would have passed through only the Secretary’s private server
and, therefore, would be beyond the immediate reach of State. Because of
this circumstance, unlike the ordinary case, State could not look
solely to its own records systems to adequately respond to [Judicial
Watch’s] demand.

“The
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and
effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
violated.”

To
our founders, a person’s private property consisted of his home and
land, his material possessions, the work of his hands, the creative
ideas of his mind, and his life itself. One source for the foundation
of these beliefs can be found in the Ten Commandments,
four of which deal directly with these Natural Law Rights.
Prohibitions against bearing false witness, coveting, theft, and murder
all validate the concept of personal property and protect the rights of
property owners.

Via Keith "My family was there. No intelligent discourse from the anti monument
side. One thing was clear-there will be signs and the signs will paint a
hateful view of the Confederate side of history."

So much for civility.

More
than 500 people gathered Wednesday in the Virginia Historical Society
auditorium for the contentious first public hearing of Mayor Levar
Stoney’s Monument Avenue Commission. The event, held with the intent to
gather input on how best to add context to the Confederate statues
lining Monument Avenue, bordered on chaotic as more than 40 speakers
weighed in and tempers flared.

The
standing-room-only crowd weathered a tense, two-hour hearing that saw
members of the commission attempt in vain to keep the conversation civil
as speakers offered opposing viewpoints.

Audience members, at points,
heckled or shouted down some speakers with whom they disagreed.

Just hours after Trump made his famously heated vow to unleash "fire
and fury" on North Korea if provocations by the Kim regime continued,
the US Air Force issued a very clear statement in which it explicitly said that it was "ready to fight tonight", launching an attack of B-1 bombers if so ordered:

“How we train is how we fight and the more we interface with our
allies, the better prepared we are to fight tonight,” said a 37th EBS
B-1 pilot. “The B-1 is a long-range bomber that is well-suited for the
maritime domain and can meet the unique challenges of the Pacific.”

As I noted
on Wednesday, Guam is well protected against a prospective North Korean
ballistic missile assault. But what if an attack on Guam did occur?

In that scenario, while it's impossible to know how President Trump
would respond, I believe the U.S. military would recommend retaliation
at one of four levels.

First, in the
event that a missile strike caused no or very few casualties (less than
5), the U.S. would likely employ measured retaliation. North Korean
launch sites and missile units would be destroyed, but the regime's
command and control facilities would probably be left alone. Neither
would the U.S. be likely to target North Korea's leadership. Instead,
the overriding intent would be the removal of the ballistic missile
threat and the restored U.S. balance of power. If the North Koreans
attempted to reconstitute their ballistic missile program, the U.S.
would destroy it again.

What if a North Korean strike inflicted casualties beyond the low digits but not in the hundreds or thousands?

There is something sick and twisted going on in the Democrat Party.
Too many Democrats have been accused of pedophilia for it to be a
coincidence.

Raymond Liddy, a Democrat and deputy Attorney General in
California, has been charged in a San Diego federal court with
possession of child pornography in his Coronado home, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune.

Liddy is the son of G. Gordon Liddy, who served time in prison for
helping to coordinate the burglary of the Democrat National Committee
headquarters during the Watergate scandal.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.